We probably shouldn’t put celebrities on a pedestal. After all, they’re only human, and fame doesn’t make anyone perfect. Still, being in the public eye comes with a certain amount of influence, and many famous faces become role models for their fans.
When you’ve admired someone for years, followed their career, and supported their work, it’s natural to feel a little attached. So when they do something that goes against everything you believed about them, it can hit surprisingly hard.
One Redditor asked people to share which celebrity fall from grace disappointed them the most, and plenty had something to say. We’ve rounded up their answers below. Scroll down to read them, and don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comments.
#41
Not quite the topic but anytime I find out a celeb is a Scientologist I am disappointed
Particularly, Elizabeth Moss.
Particularly, Elizabeth Moss.
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#42
Not the biggest name, but Marion Zimmer Bradley. "Mists of Avalon" was one of my favorite books of all time until all that terrible stuff came out about her.
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#43
Rolf Harris. Growing up as an art loving kid and an animal lover, he was always in the limelight of the programs i watched and he seemed like such a good, cheery man.
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#44
Ryan Haywood from Achievement Hunter. He was my favorite from the group and the one I identified with the most. He seemed like such a good guy. A family man. Then you find out hes actually a monster.
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#45
John Mulaney is a pretty tough one. Loved his acts. Related to him a lot. We're all human and his dirty laundry was of the standard-human-indiscretion variety but it's still bad.
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#48
Joss Whedon. Broke my heart that he ended up being such a bad person. Buffy literally shaped so much of my life, being part of that fandom had me meet people who are still my best friends to this day, move cities to live closer to them, leading to me meeting my husband. We loved him so much.
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#49
Louis CK, after all the time he spent talking about his daughters and his ex-wife and how hard it is for women I really thought he'd be a better person. Second place goes to Joss Whedon for similar reasons, when I was a teenage girl I actually looked up to him and believed he was a feminist.
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#50
Morrissey, as a weird working class left wing outsider seeing him support for britain hurts the nme were right!
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#51
Bill Maher. His jokes nowadays just sound like a clueless, angry, old man screaming at the clouds.
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#52
Al Franken. Not because what he did was even that bad, but because he let it take him out of congress where he was doing such good things.
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#55
Garrison Keillor. Projected an empathetic upstanding guy but was a creep. I miss Prairie Home Companion reruns on the radio.
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#56
These are not disgraced, but I am disappointed in how they turned out.
Joe Rogan & Dave Chapelle
Money changes people.
Joe Rogan & Dave Chapelle
Money changes people.
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#57
Stephen Collins. What is wrong with people? Do they get ‘conscience bypasses’?
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